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Two former Parramatta Eels players are accused of harbouring semi-automatic weapons and possessing more than half-a-million dollars in cash after dramatic arrests in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday.

AWE abandons Mid-West fracking plan

Oil and gas company AWE Ltd has abandoned plans to frack a shale gas prospect on pastoral land 220 kilometres north of Perth.

The company said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on Friday that it had decided not to hydraulically fracture the Drover-1 well after assessing its potential.

"This is good news for the community, good news for the groundwater and a huge relief for the landholder where the Drover well has been drilled," Conservation Council of WA director Piers Verstegen said.